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Jun 11 2015
News
Hillary Clinton's favors to foundation donors stretch back to Senate days
Hillary Rodham Clinton's efforts to provide favors to major donors to her husband's global charity or her own political career stretch back far earlier than her tenure as America's top diplomat, dating to the time she served as a U.S. senator and had the power to earmark federal funds and influence legislation, records show.
Washington TimesAug 20 2012
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Fact Check: Obama running against outdated version of Ryan Medicare plan
The Obama campaign would like voters to believe that Paul Ryan's Medicare plan would "end Medicare as we know it" -- privatizing the whole system and costing seniors more than $6,000 extra a year. But the campaign, even before Ryan was selected as Mitt Romney's running mate, has effectively been running against the wrong Ryan plan. The president's accusations largely refer to Ryan's 2011 plan
Fox News DigitalApr 16 2020
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U.S. Jobless Claims Top 20 Million Since Start of Shutdowns
Another 5.2 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total seeking aid in a month of coronavirus-related shutdowns to 22 million and showing a broad shock for the U.S. labor market.
Total claims filed in the week ended April 11 were down from the 6.6 million filed the prior week, the Labor Department said Thursday. For the March 28 week, 6.9 million
Wall Street Journal (News)May 21 2013
News
U.S. Stocks Rise as Bullard Says Stimulus Should Continue
U.S. stocks rose, erasing earlier losses, after Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said the central bank should continue its bond buying to boost growth that is slower than expected.
BloombergDec 10 2016
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Hey, White Working Class, Donald Trump Is Already Screwing You Over
Dear Working-Class White Trump Voter, You’re probably going to read this as sour grapes, and I certainly am sour about a family of kleptocrats moving into the White House because 80,000 of your votes in states that get more federal tax dollars than they put in trump 2.7 million of ours, even though we carry you financially, and California and New York could function just fine as our own
Daily BeastOct 28 2014
Opinion
OPINION: Assessing Common Core: Con
Common Core is bad for students, and it’s bad for teachers, parents and state and local autonomy. It is a federal intrusion and all-encompassing leviathan that legally should not be allowed to stand, let alone wrap its tentacles around students from kindergarten until they graduate from high school and head to college.
Washington TimesMay 18 2020
Opinion
We Can Prevent a Great Depression. It’ll Take $10 Trillion.
Don’t think of that number as “big” or “bold.” Just think of it as the appropriate dosage for a once-in-a-century economic affliction.
Last week, House Democrats unveiled their latest pandemic-relief package. The bill combines aid for families, a bailout for struggling cities and states, and additional funds for testing, tracing, and hospitals. The price tag is about $3 trillion—and it
The AtlanticAug 24 2020
Analysis
How Trump let Covid-19 win
Trump’s magical thinking couldn’t beat the coronavirus. America is stuck with the consequences.
As America, and even his own administration, woke up to the threat of Covid-19, President Donald Trump still didn’t seem to get it. Within weeks of suggesting that people social distance in mid-March, the president went on national TV to argue that the US could reopen by Easter Sunday in
VoxSep 29 2020
News
The New York Times' Report on Trump's Tax Returns
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
On Sunday, September 27th, the New York Times published an exclusive report that examined decades of President Trump's personal and corporate tax records. The report was accompanied by a letter from Dean Baquet ( Abridge NewsMar 12 2015
News
Clinton’s Email and the Privacy ‘Privilege’
Hillary Clinton says neither the federal government nor an independent third party has the right to review emails she sent as secretary of state if she deems them personal. “Government officials are granted the privacy of their personal, non-work related emails, including personal emails on .gov accounts,” her office says.
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